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Tiananmen vigil in Taipei to call attention to Taiwanese activist

2017-05-30
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Taipei, May 29 (CNA) A Taipei vigil to commemorate the 28th anniversary of China's Tiananmen Square massacre will draw attention to the case of Taiwanese human rights advocate Lee Ming-che, who is being held in China for suspected subversion of state power, organizers of the event said Monday.

The vigil will mention Lee's case and highlight the fact that he is not an isolated case, but one of the many victims of China's deteriorating human rights, said Chiu E-ling, secretary-general of the Taiwan Association for Human Rights (TAHR).

The vigil, jointly organized by the Taiwanese Students Working Group for Promoting China's Democratization, the TAHR and the New School for Democracy, will take place in the plaza in front of the National Theater Hall on June 4.

The organizers said the Chinese government's oppression of human rights has not ceased, even 28 years after the Tiananmen Square massacre, a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in China in 1989.

In recent years, the Chinese government has stepped up its surveillance and oppression of its people, with the aim of suppressing the development of Chinese civil society and continuing its autocratic regime, the organizers said.

"As Taiwanese, we should not delude ourselves into thinking that China's dictatorship and autocracy will not affect us as long as we close our doors and mind our own business," they said.

Lee, a staff member at Wenshan Community College in Taipei and a former Democratic Progressive Party worker, went missing after entering China via Macau on March 19 and was later confirmed to have been detained by the Chinese authorities.

The Chinese government announced May 26 that Lee had been arrested on charges of "subversion of state power." An Fengshan, spokesman for China's Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO), claimed that an investigation into the case found that Lee had frequently traveled to and from China since 2012 and worked with Chinese nationals to develop plans of action and establish an illegal ring aimed at subverting Beijing. No other details of what Lee is specifically alleged to have done were provided.

Beijing has refused to discuss Lee's case with Taiwan's authorities and has ignored requests to allow Lee's family to visit him. 

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